Psalms 50
1 A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.
A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:
2 From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
3 Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.
God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
4 He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.
He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.
5 Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.
Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.
6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself [is] judge. (Selah)
And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.
7 Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
8 Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
9 I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.
I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.
10 For Mine [is] every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen.
For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen.
11 I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.
I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.
12 If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?
Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
14 Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
15 And call Me in a day of adversity, I deliver thee, and thou honourest Me.
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
16 And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.
Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
18 If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.
If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
19 Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,
Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
20 Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.
Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son:
21 These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.
These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
22 Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
23 He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.
